Iran’s Defense Minister says the country’s new space center will be operational by next spring, the latest development in a program signaling Tehran’s fast-developing ballistic missile capability. Ahmad Vahidi said after a cabinet meeting Wednesday that the facility, to be called the Imam Khomeini Spaceport, would be completed and running by the end of the Iranian year (March 20, 2013). Officials said earlier that the center – whose location has not been disclosed – will be used to launch satellites built in Iran and other Islamic countries. “The children of great Khomeini, the innovative and leading scientists and experts from...